The previous conditions clause was great. The raise in medicaid was pathetic at best. The rest of it was all written by the insurance companies. Forced corporatism. We shouldnt be accepting of this at all, because if that is what a mandate 08 election of Dems got us, we are really really really screwed.

Liar - the Koch's love nothing and no-one - they just feed their greed and let the help think whatever they want as long as they follow orders. Nice of you to offer that sop anyway - the blind lackeys have little to make em feel good ( nothing ).

No surprise - hey? Goes hand in hand with their fossil fuel global warming/climate change Denial - attack the science attack the admin and every thing it is involved in - Diss-information/Miss-information - Distractions - Lies - Shock Doctrine manufacturing consent. Do not point to individuals who are acting as roadblocks to improving our society = Boner, Bitch, Rand, etc - the ones screwing up legislation or holding it back.

Yep all part of the Corp(se)oRAT game. Include wallstreet in this as well.

ACA basis was founded by Republicans back in the day. How Democrats convinced people that it was good for them is beyond me.

I really love how Democrats stated that forcing people to purchase from Wall St for their retirement was bad (I agree, I dont want that) but think that forcing people to buy from the insurance companies for their health is good.

I just dont get how anyone who is remotely liberal could think that forcing the poor to buy from a corrupted industry is the solution at all.

When One sees posts about global warming and pollution and pesticides and GMO foods down voted - Heavily downvoted - with no comments to explain why the downvote happened - that is until later when they have not succeded in burying the post - well then One damn well knows there are shills who do not have any business being on this site - no "good" business. This I think would be apparent to all by now.

We are at the fork in the road -- continue our dependence on dirty, climate-changing fossil fuels or move towards a clean energy future?

Last week, President Obama shared a climate action plan that doubled down on clean energy and natural gas. Proposing we frack more to replace coal and ship natural gas overseas is a recipe for climate disaster.

Drilling for natural gas means more climate pollution. Methane emissions from fracking -- leaking from wells throughout the drilling process -- are 72 to 105 times more potent than carbon dioxide.1 And we know the climate footprint of a fracked well is much larger than the well itself. The water, sand, and steel used to build and drill these wells is trucked in, redefining rush hour traffic in many parts of the country. 2

Right now, decisions are being made about what it means to protect a community from fracking pollution, where natural gas companies can drill, and where to locate liquefied natural gas export terminals. Whether it's replacing coal-fired power plants with natural gas plants or shipping the gas to other countries -- our communities, public lands, and coasts are threatened by more fracking.

Some communities are waking-up but the bad news is the damage has been done and if they were able to get the fracking halted and the wells plugged - there is still all of that broken geological structure that is gonna continue to bleed crap into the land and water around it. They may be able to stop the well polluting the air ( at least directly ) but the land and water will be forever at risk and untrustworthy.

And that is why they want to kill education - they are afraid these populations are gonna wake-up are gonna stop listening to their BS fossil fuel propaganda - meanwhile toxic sacrifice zones multiply and expand.